2008/9/12 David Moran fordmadoxfraud@gmail.com:
I've never seen edit histories deleted for copyright violation, but I suppose it's not a crazy misuse of the admis tools. I've seen histories deleted for BLP violations, and spam links that go to stuff like porn, and, if I recall correctly, personal attacks (esp. those that "out" our contributors). So I guess there are circumstances where removing destructive edits doesn't qualify as a violation of the GFDL.
It should be applied very conservatively, but there is a place for it.
- d.